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UTA In The News — Monday, February 25, 2013

Meiners discusses potential impact of sequestration

KDFW/FOX 4
interviewed Roger Meiners, the Goolsby Distinguished Professor of
Economics and Law and chair of the Department of Economics at UT
Arlington, about the sequestration set to take effect this week. “There
may be a few furloughs, that is, they may require some federal employees
to take a couple of weeks off without pay, and that’s unfortunate, but
this is an effort to engineer a crisis,” Meiners said. “Then you get, of
course, people saying ‘Oh we have to have this protected.’ Government
spending has been going through the roof. If we’re going to get it under
control, it means we have to get serious about where there’s going to
be cuts.”

Farrar-Myers discusses steps leading to sequestration

Raycom News Network interviewed
Victoria Farrar-Myers, UT Arlington distinguished teaching professor of
political science, about how the government got to sequestration. “This
Congress is the most polarized in history. Between Republicans,
Democrats and median voters, there are not all the moderates that used
to cross over,” Farrar-Myers said. “We’re not seeing crossover anymore,
not seeing outside conversations. We see small groups – gangs of four,
gangs of eight – and legislation is being torpedoed by the smallest
piece of something.” CBS Atlanta, Fox 5 Las Vegas, CBS 19 Cleveland, CBS 5 Phoenix, Hawaii News Now and more than 30 other RNN affiliates also carried this story.

Dulaney discusses Black History Month

The Dallas Morning News interviewed
Marvin Dulaney, associate professor and chair of the Department of
History at UT Arlington, about the relevancy of Black History Month.
“I’m hoping for a time that we get rid of it,” Dulaney said. “Not
because I don’t think black history should be celebrated, but because
I’m hoping for infusion and inclusion; that it would just be redundant
to do a black history month.”

May research into Jupiter Hammon leads to invitation from Yale

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and About.com reported
on research by Cedrick May, UT Arlington associate professor of
English, and doctoral student Julie McCown, which led to the discovery
at Yale University of a rare poem by Jupiter Hammon, the first African
American to publish literary works in America. May was invited to Yale
Feb. 21 to discuss his work, the Yale University Library website noted.

Smith discusses Oscar-nominated films

The Arizona Republic
interviewed Ya’Ke Smith, the Morgan Woodward Distinguished Professor in
the Department of Art and Art History at UT Arlington, about this
year’s Oscar-nominated films. Many of the films are based on true
stories. “It’s refreshing to see mainstream film directors acquiring an
appetite for cinema that forces us to face our issues head on,” Smith
said.

UT Arlington launches Maverick Veterans' Voices

KTVT/CBS 11
mentioned UT Arlington’s newly launched Maverick Veterans’ Voices, an
oral history project that will document the experiences of student
veterans and their families -- information that will eventually be made
available to researchers online.

Library receives NEH grant to help bring about better understanding of Muslim cultures

The Examiner.com
reported on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant given to 843
U.S. universities and libraries, including the UT Arlington Library, to
help bring about a better understanding of Muslim cultures globally. Two
Irving public libraries and Texas Christian University are the only
other DFW recipients of the grant that includes a library collection of
25 books and 3 documentary films about Islam in America and in the
world.